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It was largely due to Turgenev's efforts that the novel started to gain popularity with the European readership. The first French edition of the War and Peace (1879) paved the way for the worldwide success of Leo Tolstoy and his works. [21] Since then many world-famous authors have praised War and Peace as a masterpiece of world literature.
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General Campan; Marquis de Caulaincourt (1773-1827) – French ambassador to Russia General Chatrov – an old comrade in arms of Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky; Pavel Vasilievich Chichagov (1767–1849) or Tchichagov (8 July [O.S. 27 June] 1767 – 20 August 1849) – was a Russian military and naval commander of the Napoleonic wars.
Count Nikolai Ilyich Rostov (Russian: Николай Ильич Ростов) is a character in Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel War and Peace. Count Nikolai is the brother of Vera Rostova, Natasha Rostova and Petya Rostov. At the start of the novel, Nikolai is aged 20 and a university student.
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They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 is a 2004 book written by David Maraniss. The book centers around the Battle of Ong Thanh and a protest at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2004 [1] and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize that same year.